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It was truly carnival season at the Kaipara District Circus on Wednesday. An understandably concerned group of ratepayers responded to an anonymous tip-off that their rating structures might be debated during the 10am session, by filling the gallery of the Circus Chambers to capacity – possibly the first full house in the Circus’s history. Following an extensive period of clarification a...
A late item is to be submitted to be included on the agenda for tomorrow's Council meeting. It relates to the setting of an interim rate. You can read the item here. The meeting starts at 10am tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Council chambers, Dargaville. You can post your comments in the Long Term Plan forum here.
The events of earlier this week have to some extent been overtaken by the announcement of the review team yesterday here. To recap, Council spent the first three days of the week delberating on the submissions on the Long Term Plan aka. rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. At the start of the first day Councillor Wade addressed the meeting about his concerns with the process and moved a m...
The Council press release is here The Q and A sheet is here Post your comments here
The Review team has been appointed - see here Post you comments here More from the WorkBoot later.
Last week WorkBoot spent four days at the LTP hearings. The 'deliberations' are being held in Dargaville tomorrow. Having witnessed the genuine horror expressed by ratepayers at being presented with a quite possibly unlawful and largely untenable proposal, I was surprised to receive the staff recommendations on submissions here. The report seems to present a very different message to what I had g...